This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Badge of the Day #63 (Seljak Cvetojevac)

Presenting today a most welcome addition to the collection
& a badge featuring Seljak Cvetojevac, a rather wonderful name full of
eastern exoticism that has recently emerged from out of the Serbian obscurity
in which it resides (the second level of the Kragujevac league, apparently)
& into consciousness, instantly attractive & ripe for a spot of
favouritism.

The badge as object, representing the club’s crest, is
delightfully desirable – the Cyrillic representation of the name has the
familiar aesthetic appeal, of course, as does the ‘communist’/Yugoslav red star
motif, the appeal of which is in this instance intensified by the presence of
the sickle within (a signifier of Seljak’s peasant/farmer roots), whilst the fresh,
pale green ground is unusual in a football context, where darker tones &
more emerald colouration is closer to a norm. It’s a lovely thing.